# Retail Vitae and Character Information pseudocode

Sources: Sept. 2013 named retail client, installed `local_English.dat`, and the
matching v11.4186 executable. String keys are resolved from StringTable
`0x23000001`; duration formatting is StringTable `0x23000006`.

## Vitae

`gmVitaeUI::Update @ 0x004A7400`

```text
vitae = current Vitae enchantment modifier, or 1.0
lost = 100 - trunc(vitae * 100)

if lost <= 0:
    mainText = ID_Vitae_Text_Full
else:
    mainText  = ID_Vitae_Text_Vitae(lost)
    mainText += ID_Vitae_Text_Skills(lost)
    remaining = VitaeCPPoolThreshold(vitae, deathLevel) - currentPool
    mainText += ID_Vitae_Text_Experience(remaining)
```

The skills paragraph is not optional. It explains that health, stamina, mana,
and skills are reduced by the same percentage and warns about penalties above
15 percent.

## Character Information

`gmCharacterInfoUI::Update @ 0x004BA790` clears `m_pMainText`, appends six
sections, and inserts one empty `StringInfo` between each section:

```text
UpdatePlayerBirthAgeDeaths
blank
UpdateEnduranceInfo
blank
UpdateInnateAttributeInfo
blank
UpdateFakeSkills
blank
UpdateAugmentations
blank
UpdateLoad
```

It does not prepend character name, level, race, title, current vitals, or
invented section headings.

### Birth, play time, and deaths

`gmCharacterInfoUI::UpdatePlayerBirthAgeDeaths @ 0x004B8CB0`

```text
if PropertyInt 0x62 exists:
    append ID_CharacterInfo_Birth(strftime("%c", localtime(value)))
if PropertyInt 0x7D exists:
    append ID_CharacterInfo_Played(TimeUtils::QueryDuration(value))

deaths = PropertyInt 0x2B, default 0
append the None / One / Two string for 0 / 1 / 2
otherwise append ID_CharacterInfo_Deaths_Many(deaths)
```

`TimeUtils::QueryDuration @ 0x00684170` divides seconds into 365-day years,
30-day months, seven-day weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Zero units
are omitted by `ID_DurationFormat`.

### Resistance grades

`gmCharacterInfoUI::UpdateEnduranceInfo @ 0x004B8EB0`

```text
strength = current Strength
endurance = current Endurance

resist = grade(strength + endurance,
               [200, 260, 320, 380, 440])
regen  = grade(strength + 2 * endurance,
               [200, 346, 470, 580, 690])

grade values in ascending order:
None, Poor, Mediocre, Hardy, Resilient, Indomitable

append ID_CharacterInfo_Resists(RESIST=resist, REGEN=regen)
```

The localized template uses `RESIST` for both the Natural and Drain lines and
`REGEN` for the Regeneration Bonus line.

The literal grades and thresholds were verified from the matching executable
at `0x00794028` and `0x007B1EB8..0x007B1EE8`.

### Innates and fake skills

`UpdateInnateAttributeInfo @ 0x004B87E0` appends the six innate values in the
order Strength, Endurance, Coordination, Quickness, Focus, Self.

`UpdateFakeSkills @ 0x004B8930` appends PropertyInt `0xB5` as Chess Rank and
PropertyInt `0xC0` as Fishing Skill. These are not skill-credit counters.

### Augmentations and load

`UpdateAugmentations @ 0x004B9000` emits only earned mastery, luminance, and
augmentation lines. It emits no `Augmentations` heading and no `None` line.
The first three mastery properties are `0x162`, `0x163`, and `0x16A`; ordinary
augmentation counts are read from their individual PropertyInt qualities.

`UpdateLoad @ 0x004B8A20` computes retail encumbrance capacity from Strength
and PropertyInt `0xE6`. Below 100 percent load it appends the not-overburdened
sentence. At or above 100 percent it appends excess burden and the Run/Jump/
defense reduction. When `0xE6` is positive it also appends the Seventh Mule
augmentation sentence.

## Panel surface and quit button

The Character Information and Vitae child layouts author a full-height
`0x06004CC2` center surface beneath their text. The Positive Effects child does
not; it relies on its enclosing shared panel surface. When mounting those child
layouts in acdream's standalone shared window, the outer chrome must not paint
a second center surface over an already-authored one. Two translucent center
layers compound into the opaque-looking result reported in-client.

The quit control is the ordinary button `0x100000FA` in LayoutDesc
`0x21000071`. Its DAT default is state 1 (`Normal`) with RenderSurface
`0x06007BB1`; state 3 is the pressed surface. `gmIndicatorsUI` does not own a
hover-only visibility rule, so the retained button must enter Normal during
controller initialization, before pointer input.